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progrefs, made by all the plantations belonging to 

 Lord Mountjoy. But I need not have faid any thing 

 with refpeft to the progrefs, as this point fufficiently 

 proves hfelf. 



During the above period, I can to a certainty declare, 

 that it did not exceed five pounds to make any altera- 

 tion or deviation from the general plan, firft digefted 

 and arranged. Hence the good effects arifing from 

 fetting out upon a cool, mature, and deliberate plan. 

 I wifh, the fame could be faid, with propriety, of all 

 the improvements throughout the kingdom. 



The nurferies, &c. being fettled, there was no time 

 to be loft for cuclofing, and preparing the foils intended 

 to be planted. It was a general rule to enclofe and 

 plant the higheft and moft expofed fituations firfl, 

 which are chiefly the weft, fouth-weft, and north-weft, 

 ihefe being the points moft neceffary to guard againft. 

 Another rule was much attended to, namely, to enclofe 

 fome time before the planting took place, and alfo, to 

 drain, where the foil required it. It was very com- 

 mon to enclofe and drain for three feafons before the 

 planting commenced, by which means the nature x>f 

 the foils was entirely changed ; fheltcr and draining 

 having afted fo powerfully, and the furze-feeds, fown 

 pn the backs of the ditches, becoming complete fhelter 

 in three years ; and the fluff, caft out of the drains, 

 went a great way in deepening the foil. But more of 

 this io its proper phot. 



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